Although my actual gaming-related blogging has slacked off of late (personal reasons have led to various distractions), I enrolled in the new RPG Blog Alliance today - a new gaming blog aggregator in the hope that this will have the dual effect of (a) encouraging me to stay more focused and (b) introduce the rather random, magazine-style delights of HeroPress to more people.
Obviously, my main gaming interest at the moment is Villains & Vigilantes, as this is the engine driving my on-going Knight City campaign for our small, monthly gaming group, The Tuesday Knights.
However, I'm also slowly making my way through Postmortem Studios enticing Agents Of S.W.I.N.G. - the first FATE-powered game I've really sunk my teeth into.
With a brain that's been hard-wired to old school Dungeons & Dragons/Traveller/Call Of Cthulhu derivatives for more than 30 years, there's of aspects of S.W.I.N.G. (FATE-related pun intended) that I'm not instantly grokking (characters don't have traditional stats for one thing - which boggles my puny mind), but I'm so intoxicated by the spy-fi setting that I'm soldiering on.
I'm sure when I'm finally finished I'll have a string of questions for author James Desborough - well, he did foolishly offer to answer any I had, so I'm drawing up a list.
Clearly FATE works as a system - because so many games are selling with it under the hood - but because I don't have access to a more regular gaming group to take S.W.I.N.G. out for a test drive (when you only get together once a month - at most - for two to three hours, you can't afford to take gambles on one-shots or 'new systems' that might not work, if you are looking to get a campaign running) it's all rather hypothetical at the moment as I try to negotiate the mechanics in my head.
The more you say about this S.W.I.N.G. the more I'm liking it.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, the background is brilliant and highly inspirational, it's just the system that is so alien to my 'old school' brain ;-)
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